Dr Kevin Purse |
||
| Position: | Senior Research Fellow |
|
| Division/Portfolio: | Division of Education, Arts and Social Sciences | |
| School/Unit: | School of Psychology, Social Work and Social Policy | |
| Group: | Centre for Sleep Research | |
| Campus: | City East Campus | |
| Office: | ||
| Telephone: | ||
| Fax: | ||
| Email: | Kevin_dot_Purse_at_unisa_dot_edu_dot_au | |
| URL for Business Card: | http://people.unisa.edu.au/Kevin.Purse | |
Welcome to the home page of Kevin Purse. Kevin is a Senior Research Fellow at the Centre for Sleep Research. He has a first degree in economics and is a Fellow of the Australian Institute of Company Directors. He completed his PhD on workers' compensation policy in 2003 at Adelaide University.
Prior to being awarded his doctorate he worked in the areas of occupational health and safety and workers' compensation and served as a director of the WorkCover Corporation and the South Australian Occupational Health and Safety Commission.
Kevin was a foundation Editorial Board member of the Journal of Australian Political Economy and is currently on the Editorial Board of the International Journal of Social Security and Workers' Compensation.
His research interests include occupational health and safety, vocational rehabilitation, workers' compensation and political economy.
Links to other sites
Hawke Research Institute for Sustainable Societies
Professional associations
Fellow, Australian Institute of Company Directors
Member, Association of Industrial Relations Academics of Australia and New Zealand
Qualifications
B.Ec (Flinders), Dip. FAICD (New England), Ph.D (Adelaide)
Research interests
- Workers' compensation policy
- Occupational health and safety policy
- Vocational rehabilitation
- Political economy
- Labour studies
Research publications
Business Regulation and Workers' Compensation: A National Framework for Workers' Compensation in Australia, International Journal of Comparative Labour Law and Industrial Relations, Vol. 25, No. 4, December 2009, pp. 395-410 (With Rob Guthrie).
Outsourcing Myths and Workers' Compensation Claims Administration, Australian Journal of Public Administration,Vol. 68, No. 4, December 2009, pp. 446-458.
From WorkCover To WorkCover Lite In South Australia, Australian Journal of Labour Law, Vol. 22, No. 2, August 2009, pp. 188-206.
WorkCover: A Neo-liberal Makeover, Journal of Australian Political Economy, No. 63, Winter 2009, pp. 56-79.
Workers Compensation Policy in Australia: New Challenges for a New Government, Journal of Applied Law and Policy, Vol. 1, No. 1, December 2008, pp. 99-110. (With Rob Guthrie).
Workers' Compensation and Self-Insurance in Australia - Implications for North America?, IAIABC Journal, Fall 2008, Vol. 45, No. 2, pp. 153-182. (With Rob Guthrie).
Safe Work Australia – A New One-stop Regulatory Shop?, Journal of Occupational Health and Safety – Australia and New Zealand, October 2008, Vol. 24, No. 5, pp. 403-408.
Workers' Compensation: A National Perspective, Australian Options, No. 53, Winter 2008, pp. 25-28. (With Rob Guthrie).
Workers' Compensation Fall-out: The High Court Decision, Insurance Law Journal, Vol. 18, No. 2, July 2007, pp. 128-134. (With Rob Guthrie and Frances Meredith).
Workers’ Compensation, Workplace Health and Safety, and the "New" Federalism, Journal of Occupational Health and Safety – Australia and New Zealand, Vol. 23, No. 2, April 2007, pp. 107-111.
Workers' Compensation and Self-Insurance in Australia - National Priority or Trojan Horse? Insurance Law Journal, Vol. 17, No. 3, October 2006, pp. 256-267. (With Rob Guthrie and Frances Meredith).
Recent Developments in the Global Asbestos Epidemic, Journal of Occupational Health and Safety – Australia and New Zealand, Vol. 22, No. 5, October 2006, pp. 423-426.
Workers' Compensation in Western Australia: A Case Study 1993 - 2004, Australian Bulletin of Labour, Vol. 32, No. 1, June 2006, pp. 62-73. (With Rob Guthrie and Peter Lurie).
Asbestos: A Global Epidemic in Need of a Global Solution, Journal of Occupational Health and Safety – Australia and New Zealand, Vol. 22, No. 1, February 2006, pp. 21-26.
The Evolution of Workers' Compensation Policy in Australia, Health Sociology Review , Vol. 14, No. 1, August 2005, pp. 8-20.
Neoliberalism, Workers' Compensation and the Productivity Commission, Australian Journal of Political Economy, No. 54, December 2004, pp. 45-66. (With Frances Meredith and Rob Guthrie).
Faulty Frameworks: The Productivity Commission and Workers' Compensation, Australian Journal of Labour Law, Vol. 17, No. 3, December 2004, pp. 306-316. (With Rob Guthrie and Frances Meredith).
The Productivity Commission and OHS Arrangements in Australia, Journal of Occupational Health and Safety - Australia and New Zealand, Vol. 20, No. 5, October 2004, pp. 417-424.
Work-Related Fatality Risks and Neoclassical Compensating Wage Differentials, Cambridge Journal of Economics, Vol. 28, No. 4, July 2004, pp. 597-617.
Australian Workers' Compensation Policy: Conflict, Step-Downs and Weekly Payments, International Employment Relations Review, Vol. 9, No. 1, June 2003, pp. 23-44.
Workers' Compensation Based Employment Security for Injured Workers - A Review of Legislation and Enforcement, Journal of Occupational Health and Safety - Australia and New Zealand, Vol. 18, No. 1, February 2002, pp. 61-66.
Injured Workers and Unfair Dismissals in Victoria, Law Institute Journal, Vol. 75, No 9, October 2001, pp. 65-68.
Common Law and Workers’ Compensation in Australia, Australian Journal of Labour Law, Vol. 13, No. 3, December 2000, pp. 260-277.
The Dismissal of Injured Workers and Workers’ Compensation Arrangements in Australia, International Journal of Health Services, Vol. 30, No. 4, December 2000, pp. 849-871.
More on Secondary Disabilities, Journal of Occupational Health and Safety – Australia and New Zealand, Vol. 16, No. 4, August 2000, pp. 333-336.
Workers’ Compensation, Secondary Disabilities and Workplace Safety Incentives, Journal of Occupational Health and Safety – Australia and New Zealand, Vol. 16, No. 1, February 2000, pp. 23-28.
Workplace Health and Safety Deregulation in South Australia, Journal of Industrial Relations, Vol. 42, No. 3, September 1999, pp. 468-484.
Employment Security, Vocational Rehabilitation and Workers’ Compensation Arrangements, Torts Law Journal, Vol. 7, No. 2, July 1999, pp. 203-213.
Workers Compensation, Employment Security and the Return to Work Process, Economic and Labour Relations Review, Vol. 9, No. 2, December 1998, pp. 246-261.
Workers’ Compensation Policy in Australia: Best Practice or Lowest Common Denominator?, Journal of Industrial Relations, Vol. 40, No. 2, June 1998, pp. 170-201.
Workplace Safety and Microeconomic Reform in Australia, International Journal of Employment Studies, Vol 5, No. 2, October 1997, pp. 135-153, reprinted in Leece P., Morris, R. and Mortimer, D. (Eds.), 1999, Workplace Reform and Enterprise Bargaining (2nd Ed.), Sydney, pp. 351-362.
Workers’ Compensation and The Unfunded Liability Fetish, Labour and Industry, Vol. 7, No. 1, June 1996, pp. 113-123.
Conferences
Workers' Compensation in South Australia - Past, Present and Future, Australian Lawyers Alliance - SA State Conference, Adelaide, June 2010.
The Reconfiguration of Workers' Compensation Regulation in Australia, 11th National Workers' Compensation Summit, Sydney, February 2010.
Business Regulation and Workers’ Compensation: A National Framework for Workers Compensation in Australia? (with R. Guthrie), XIX World Congress, International Society for Labour and Social Security Law, Sydney, September 2009.
Workers' Compensation - A Clayton's Scheme for South Australia?, Australian Society for the Study of Labour History, Adelaide, June 2008.
Workers' Compensation at the Crossroads - A National Perspective (with R. Guthrie), OHS & Workers' Compensation Under Labor Conference, Melbourne, May 2008.
Minimum Wages in Australia and Britain: A Tale of Two Commissions, 100 Years of Minimum Wage Regulation Conference, London School of Economics, December 2007.
Workers' Compensation and Self-Insurance in Australia - National Priority or Trojan Horse? Australian Workers' Compensation Summit , Sydney, November 2006.
Punctuated Equilibrium and Workers' Compensation in Australia, Australian Society for the Study of Labour History, Adelaide, May 2006.
The Political Economy of Federal Industrial Relations 'Reform', Symposium on Industrial Relations and Workplace Flexibility: International Comparative Perspectives, Adelaide, February 2006.
Workers' Compensation and the Productivity Commission, The Future of Workers' Compensation Conference, Mebourne, March 2005.
Recent Controversies in Australian Workers’ Compensation Policy, 5th International Congress on Work Injuries Prevention, Rehabilitation and Compensation, Adelaide, March 2001.
Expertise for Media Contact
I am able to provide media comment in the following areas of expertise:
Discipline: Labour studies
- Workers' compensation policy
- Occupational health and safety policy
- Vocational rehabilitation
Change | Staff home page help